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Joe Abercrombie Biography & Facts

Joseph Edward Abercrombie (born 31 December 1974) is a British fantasy writer and film editor. He is the author of The First Law trilogy, as well as other fantasy books in the same setting and a trilogy of young adult novels. His novel Half a King won the 2015 Locus Award for best young adult book. Life and education Abercrombie was born in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Manchester University, where he studied psychology. He has a wife, Lou.Abercrombie has been an avid player of video games since his childhood. In an interview with Edge magazine, Abercrombie stated that video games have been a big influence on his writing, including early interest in text-based adventure games and historically based strategy games such as Civilization and Age of Empires. Other favorite games of Abercrombie's include Elite, Dungeon Master, Street Fighter II, and Red Dead Redemption. Career Abercrombie had a job making tea at a television production company before taking up a career as a freelance film editor. As a freelance film editor, Abercrombie found himself with more free time than he previously had. With this time, he decided to reconsider a story plot he conceived while attending University.Abercrombie began writing The Blade Itself in 2002, completing it in 2004. It took a year of rejection by publishing agencies before Gillian Redfearn of Gollancz accepted the book for a five-figure deal in 2005. It was published by Gollancz in 2006 and was followed in the succeeding two years by two other books in the trilogy, by the titles of Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings, respectively. In 2008, Joe Abercrombie was a finalist for the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer. That same year Abercrombie was one of the contributors to the BBC Worlds of Fantasy series, alongside other contributors such as Michael Moorcock, Terry Pratchett and China Miéville. In 2009, Abercrombie released the novel Best Served Cold. It is set in the same world as The First Law Trilogy but is a stand-alone novel. He followed with The Heroes (2011) and Red Country (2012), both again set in the world of the First Law Trilogy. The three standalone novels were later collected into an omnibus edition under the name The Great Leveller.In 2011, Abercrombie signed a deal with Gollancz for four more books set in the First Law world. In 2013, HarperCollins' fantasy and children's imprints acquired the rights to three books by Abercrombie, aimed at younger readers. The three standalone but interconnected novels were released as the Viking-influenced Shattered Sea trilogy. Bibliography The First Law The Age of Madness trilogy is set in the same fictional world as the First Law books during an industrial revolution. Short fiction All short fiction is collected in Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law (April 2016) and The Great Change (And Other Lies) (September 2023). "Tough Times All Over" won a Locus Award, and "The Fool Jobs" and "Some Desperado" received nominations. Shattered Sea trilogy Selected awards and honours Explanatory notes References External links Official website Joe Abercrombie at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Discover the Joe Abercrombie popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Joe Abercrombie books.

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  • Chaos Queen - Duskfall synopsis, comments

    Chaos Queen - Duskfall

    Christopher Husberg

    Shortlisted for the Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Newcomer at the Gemmell Awards 2017Pulled from a frozen sea, pierced by arrows and close to death, Knot has no memory of who ...

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    Die Stadt des Unsterblichen

    Stella Gemmell

    Der Kaiser ist tot – lang lebe die Kaiserin!Nach dem Ende des Krieges gegen die Blauhäute können die Einwohner der Kaiserstadt Cité endlich auf eine Ära voller Frieden und Freiheit...

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    Conan - Blood of the Serpent

    S. M. Stirling

    The pulsepounding return of Conan, the most iconic fantasy hero in popular culture, with a brandnew standalone novel by New York Times bestselling author S.M. Stirling, tied direct...

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    Pennyblade

    J.L. Worrad

    A sharptongued disgracednobleturnedmercenary has to stop the world collapsing into chaos in this gripping, savagely funny epic fantasy packed with unforgettable characters, for fan...

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    Wings of the Storm

    Giles Kristian

    A Viking saga of warmongering, honour and loyalty from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Games of Thrones."A...

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    Dangerous Women

    George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois

    The World Fantasy Awardwinning collection of stories featuring the best and the bravest females across genre fiction.All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerou...

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    Rogues

    George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Gillian Flynn, Neil Gaiman & Patrick Rothfuss

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA thrilling collection of twentyone original stories by an allstar list of contributorsincluding a new A Game of Thrones story by George R. R. Martin!If yo...

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    Der Schrei des Raben

    Ed Mcdonald

    Eine düstere Welt, ein düsterer Held – doch seine Gegner sind noch weit finsterer als er.Galharrow hat durch den Tod der Frau, die er liebte, jede Hoffnung verloren. Und so wendet ...

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    Tales of Angria

    Charlotte Brontë

    In 1834, Charlotte Brontë and her brother Branwell created the imaginary kingdom of Angria in a series of tiny handmade books. Continuing their saga some years later, the five 'nov...

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    Priest of Gallows

    Peter McLean

    Gangster, soldier, priest. Queen's Man. Governor.'If you haven't yet picked up this riveting and unique series, I highly recommend you do' Fantasy Book Critic Tomas Piety has every...

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    Priest of Crowns

    Peter McLean

    'Praise be to Our Lady of Eternal Sorrows, and blessed be the Ascended Martyr.' Those were the words on lips of the faithful: Blessed be the Ascended Martyr, and woe betide you if ...

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    Schwarzer Sold

    Adrian Selby & Michael Neuhaus

    Sie wurden verehrt. Sie wurden gefürchtet. Sie wurden zur Legende: Kailens Zwanzig, die beste und verschworenste Söldnertruppe, die es je gab. Vor Jahren bewahrten sie die alten Kö...

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    Black Sun Light My Way

    Jo Spurrier

    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author ... original, dramatic, unputdownable ... Sierra has always battled to control her powers, but now her life and Isidro's ...

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    Cold Iron

    Stina Leicht

    Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a twotime Campbell Award finalist.Pr...

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    Ungnade - Die Getreuen und die Gefallenen 4

    John Gwynne

    Der Kampf gegen die Dunkelheit ist noch nicht entschieden!Der Krieg zwischen den Gerechten und den Gefallenen scheint entschieden: Der teuflische König Nathair ist in den Besitz al...

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    Stranger of Tempest

    Tom Lloyd

    Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's principalitie...

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    God of Vengeance

    Giles Kristian

    A glorious, bloody, perfect Viking saga of honour, courage, blood feud and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian. Perfect for fans of Bernard...

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    Nightfall

    Den Patrick

    Book Three in stunning Scandinaviainspired fantasy trilogy The Ashen Torment.The sky is filled with dragons: the people are ready to burn the regime to the ground. The seas churn w...

  • Die Alchemie des kalten Feuers synopsis, comments

    Die Alchemie des kalten Feuers

    Nathan Winter

    Wissenschaft vs. Magie – perfekt für alle Fantasyleser, die ein besonderes Buch suchen.Prinz Oslic ist ein Genie – in der mittelalterlichen Welt Syriatis kommt er einem DaVinci gle...

  • Barrow of Winter synopsis, comments

    Barrow of Winter

    H. M. Long

    Thrilling epic fantasy adventures set in the world of HALL OF SMOKE and TEMPLE OF NO GOD, featuring murderous conspiracies, howling icy wastelands and the Children of Winter, for r...

  • The Slow Regard of Silent Things synopsis, comments

    The Slow Regard of Silent Things

    Patrick Rothfuss

    Discover #1 New York Timesbestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy universe of The Kingkiller Chronicle, in this illustrated companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things. ...

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    In the Shadow of the Gods

    Rachel Dunne

    A breathtaking talent makes her debut with this first book in a dark epic fantasy trilogy, The Bound Gods, in which a mismatched band of mortals led by a violent, secretive man mus...

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    Blackthorne

    Stina Leicht

    In this sweeping sequel to the critically acclaimed Cold Ironwhich NPR Books raved, “reminded me, pleasurably, of Robin Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice series”the Kingdom of Eledore h...

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    The Incorruptibles

    John Hornor Jacobs

    In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it ...

  • Temple of No God synopsis, comments

    Temple of No God

    H.M. Long

    Epic fantasy followup to HALL OF SMOKE, featuring crumbling empires, secretive cults and godlike powers to be claimed, for readers of Margaret Owen, Brian Staveley, V. E. Schwab an...

  • The Godless synopsis, comments

    The Godless

    Ben Peek

    Ben Peek's The Godless is the first in the Children Trilogy; an epic fantasy series with a gripping plot and unforgettable characters.The Gods have fallen but their powers live on ...

  • A Remedy In Time synopsis, comments

    A Remedy In Time

    Jennifer Macaire

    READERS LOVE JENNIFER MACAIRE! 'Fascinating . . . Jampacked with adventure and colour' Jodi Taylor 'Fantastic historical adventure' AMAZON REVIEWER 'I highly recommend it' GOODRE...

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    Pillar of Ash

    H. M. Long

    Yske, a healer and daughter of the warrior priestess Hessa, holds the balance of power in a worldshattering war of the gods, in this thrilling, mythical and emotional epic fantasy ...

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    The Lightborn

    Rebecca Zahabi

    Freed from his prison cell, the former slave known as Tatters is finally ready to face his past. Now his true nature is known to all, he can use his Lightborn powers freely. But th...

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    Schattenklingen

    Joe Abercrombie

    Der Meister der düstergrimmigen Fantasy gibt sich erneut die Ehre und mit ihm die Helden, die Hunderttausenden von Lesern ans Herz gewachsen sind: der zynische Großinquisitor Glokt...

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    Hall of Smoke

    H.M. Long

    Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses, and fickle gods at war, for readers of Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne.Epic fantasy featuring warrior priestesses and f...

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    Until the Last

    Mike Shackle

    THE TIME HAS COME.SEKINOWARI THE LAST WAR HAS ARRIVED.The breakneck conclusion to the trilogy that started with We Are the Dead. To beat the ultimate evil, sometimes the price is...

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    The White Devil

    Paul Hoffman

    THE GRIPPING NEW ADVENTURE FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LEFT HAND OF GOD SERIESAmerica is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it . . .Thomas Cale the world's most dange...

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    Witchsign

    Den Patrick

    From celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes Witchsign, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy.It has been seventyfive years since the dragons’ rule of fir...

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    Stormtide

    Den Patrick

    Book Two in stunning Scandinaviainspired fantasy trilogy The Ashen Torment.BOOK TWO OF THE ASHEN TORMENTSteiner, blacksmith, hero, has taken a hammer to the Empire, freeing the dea...

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    North Star Guide Me Home

    Jo Spurrier

    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author... original, dramatic, unputdownable...Some things are broken beyond mending... Grievously wounded in battle, Isidro's li...

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    The Thousand Eyes

    A. K. Larkwood

    The sequel to A. K. Larkwood's stunning debut fantasy, The Unspoken Name. The Thousand Eyes continues The Serpent Gates seriesperfect for fans of Jenn Lyons, Joe Abercrombie, and U...

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    The Malevolent Seven

    Sebastien de Castell

    From the bestselling author of THE GREATCOATS: seven war mages with dark pasts must come together to fight an unknown enemy but the stakes are higher than anyone can imagine . . ....

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    Winter Be My Shield

    Jo Spurrier

    A complex, adult epic fantasy from a new Australian author ... original, dramatic, unputdownable ...Sierra has a despised and forbidden gift she raises power from the suffering of...